An Instance of the Fingerpost

Explore the murky world of 17th-century Oxford in this iconic historical thriller

Iain Pears (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

704 Seiten

1998
Vintage (Verlag)
9780099751816 (ISBN)

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An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment - intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College.

Oxford, 1660s. A scholar is dead, a woman stands accused, and four men tell their versions of the truth.

Each testimony contradicts the last - and only one reveals what truly happened.

Pears’ sweeping novel combines intellectual intrigue with page-turning mystery. An Instance of the Fingerpost is a triumph of storytelling: erudite, immersive and utterly gripping.

‘A novel that combines the simple pleasures of Agatha Christie with the intellectual subtlety of Umberto Eco’ The Times

Iain Pears was born in 1955. He is the author of seven detective novels, a book of art history and countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects, and five novels, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio, The Portrait, Stone's Fall and Arcadia.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.9.1998
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 197 mm
Gewicht	512 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
Schlagworte	Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen • Oxford, Geschichte; Romane/Erzähl.
ISBN-13	9780099751816 / 9780099751816
Zustand	Neuware